Reading between the words – Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience
Tagged: book“For Latinos, language can be a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, mainstream America is telling us to assimilate, to forget about Spanish and to learn English in order to be successful. On the other hand, if you’re Latino and you don’t speak Spanish fluently, other Latinos, especially the older generations, make you feel like a traitor, a vendido, a sellout.
Some of us prefer to find a middle ground between English and Spanish – a safe zone where we can switch from one language to the other, sometimes without noticing it, in the same sentence.”
Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience
Edited by Louis G. Mendoza and Toni Nelson Herrera;
Calaca Press/Red Salmon Press, 224 pages, $15
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